Must read for all teachers

I'm not one to have an overly emotional response to books but this one got me right in the feels. Gab gets us because she IS us. "Teacher" connects personally to many aspects of my own career and more than once as I listened to it in the car on the way to school I have shouted YES. The narration is excellent as is the writing - it really does feel like Gabbie Stroud herself is speaking to the reader personally.

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Brings Back Memories of Teaching Days

Loved the pen pictures of the different children and some of them seemed very familiar! Breaks my heart to see another wonderful, instinctive teacher worn down by testing, paper work and change for the sake of change. Politicians and bureucrats push for change to boost their own careers but in the process they cause untold harm to the children and teachers they are meant to serve.

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It’s all true

Having worked with teachers, I can say this story is on the money, each year more and more work is piled upon the teacher and less and less time is allowed for the kind of connections the kids need. It’s not the career most people think it is, there’s no time for niceties anymore, it is all that she wrote about.

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Wow. Loved it.

Brilliant insight. Funny, heartbreaking, eye opening and engaging.
Our education system is broken, it’s breaking our teachers and students and is far too political - Australia has lost sight of what education should be.

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Terrifyingly easy to relate to

Confrontingly accurately depiction of what it means to live as a teacher. Amidst all the joy and delight of teaching little minds is the ever insidious creep of a life and passion sucking bureaucracy that seems destined, if not determined, to break our education system one data point at a time.

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loved it

learned so much listening to this audiobook. it touches on important aspects of teaching and raises awareness on others.

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Brilliant but so sad!

I've been teaching for over 30yrs and so much of this is my story...I have laughed but mostly cried my way through this book. Australian education and teachers specifically are in crisis. The system is broken and I am so close to being 'teacher'. I haven't left education...education has left me.... Thank you Gabbie for putting the day to day, year to year struggle into such eloquent words. I send love, hope, smiles, laughter and life beyond the school gates... your way...and I will head back next week to my classroom feeling a little less alone....thank you ooxoo

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Brought me to tears

I loved the full story from this amazing educator. As a teacher and parent myself I feel such a strong connection to the story and to the inevitable cycles of burnout that I too have experienced.

I have such mixed feelings. I resent the politicians that govern our education system and make our noble vocation so difficult at times. I feel the joy of authentic teaching and the comments on accountability sit so heavy on my shoulders. When Gabbie wrote, it would be easier for a CCTV system to be put into our classrooms so that anyone could log in at any time and see what we do. To see that we are teaching, authentically, making adjustments to our plans where authentic learning opportunities arise like the “lost, lost tooth” because that is what good, effective teaching is. That is real engagement and that is linked to the real-world the children live in, here and now. That is the kind of teaching that I and the children love. The teaching and learning that ignites their curiosity and motivates them to go home and ask more questions and research further. That is building a love of learning and that is what I want to do. To prepare students for a world in which the world is changing so rapidly, that learning is such an important skill.

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This book will make you laugh and cry, great story

this story was too familiar, it could have been my story, burn out teacher

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Interesting and real

Aa a teacher I could really relate to this story. I think it paints very accurate picture of teaching.

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